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Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…
Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an exhortation with motives, means and directions to be speedy and serious about the work of conversion. By George Swinnocke M.A. sometime fellow of Balliol College in Oxford, and now preacher of the Gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an exhortation with motives, means and directions to be speedy and serious about the work of conversion. By George Swinnocke M.A. sometime fellow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of the Gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.
London: printed by E.M. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1659
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now thou doest not value the enjoyment of God, thou thinkest often that he is too near thee; the coming of God to thee is as to the Devils a torment, Matth. 8.29. If he draw nigh to thee sometime in a Sermon, in a private Instruction, in a motion of his spirit, or in a conviction of thy conscience, thou wishest him farther off with his precise laws, that thou mightst have more liberty for thy fleshly lusts: The voice of thine hellish heart unto God, is, Depart from me, I desire not the knowledge of thy ways, Job 21.14. Well, thy petition shall be granted to thy destruction, and God will take thee at thy word, and give thee thy wish to thy woe, when thy doom shall be to depart from him, Luke 13.27. Matth. 25.41. and then thou shalt know the incomparable worth of him; thy understanding shall be cleared, though not changed, that thy knowledge may increase thy sorrow: Thou art now wilfully ignorant of him and his Will: (some never look up to the Sun, but in an Eclipse) but then thou ⟨p. 101⟩shalt know so much of him to grind thee with tormenting grief for thy loss of him. As a prisoner through the grates may see the costly apparel, the precious liberty, the pleasant and plentiful provision which others enjoy, wh•lest he is vexed with hunger, nakedness, cold, and bondage; So thou shalt see bread enough in the Fathers house, and the children sitting round about his table, eating bread, and feasting in the Kingdom of heaven, while thou art perishing with hunger: Thou shalt see those Rivers of pleasures, wherein the godly bathe their souls, those soul-ravishing delights which they enjoy in God, the fountain of all good, whilst thou art sentenced to an eternal separation from him.
Now thou doest not value the enjoyment of God, thou thinkest often that he is too neer thee; the coming of God to thee is as to the Devils a torment, Matth. 8.29. If he draw nigh to thee sometime in a Sermon, in a private Instruction, in a motion of his spirit, or in a conviction of thy conscience, thou wishest him farther off with his precise laws, that thou mighst have more liberty for thy fleshly lusts: The voice of thine hellish heart unto God, is, Depart from me, I desire not the knowledge of thy wayes,